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" PROUD AND PROTECTIVE " G. HARVEY BRONZE SCULPTURE HORSES AND COLT
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 14 x 14
Medium: Bronze Sculpture
1982
"Proud & Protective"
I am the largest G. ...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
''Stretch'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Hare
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Male Classical Torso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Male classical torso.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Walnut
$4,640 Sale Price
20% Off
Julie's Rabbit by Dan Ostermiller
Located in Loveland, CO
Julie's Rabbit by Dan Ostermiller
cast bronze rabbit sculpture, 4x7x4"
#APJ Available (mold was destroyed so edition is complete)
Shipping price includes the custom packing necessar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Head Status - Sculpture of Head of Tristan Barnard (1866 - 1947)
Located in PARIS, FR
A rare work by Swiss sculptor Walter Spaeny
Head of Tristan Bernad (1866 - 1947) , French novelist, journalist and also lawyer.
Terracotta
Signed on the back side
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
“Two Deer and Faun”
Located in Warren, NJ
signed 'Ary Bitter' and marked 'Susse F Paris' in the cast along the front edge of the base, and with a round foundry mark at the back of the base
Provenance
Property from the Coll...
Category
20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Panther licking
By André Vincent Becquerel
Located in PARIS, FR
Panther licking
by André-Vincent BECQUEREL (1893-1981)
A bronze sculpture with nuanced green patina
Signed on the base " Becquerel "
Old edition cast
Presented on a wooden base
Fra...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seal (Circus, Viola Frey, Cirque du Soleil, The Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ann Rothman
Seal (Circus, Whimsical, Viola Frey, Delicate, Playful, Fun, Cirque du Soleil, The Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey)
2021
Porcelain, Low Fire Glazes, Crayons, Watercolors
...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze, Crayon, Watercolor
18th Century New England Cartographer's Office - Kupjack Studios Miniature Room
Located in Chicago, IL
Cartography, the study and practice of making and using maps, was at the cutting edge in the 18th-century, helping to shape and define a world rapidly coming into focus. Over the course of the century, exploration and colonization expanded the scope of the known world, especially in the Pacific and the Americas. Advances in geography enabled cartographers to map these new discoveries with increasing accuracy. The days of conjecture and myth in cartography were fast coming to an end. Here, the Kupjack Studios has captured this discipline with exacting details. From the smallest of tools, to the rolls of maps and maps in progress displayed on the desk, the world of miniatures comes to life and brings us into a bygone era.
Kupjack Miniatures
18th Century New England Cartographer, circa. 2008
mixed media
14h x 26.25w x 14.75d in
35.56h x 66.67w x 37.47d cm
KJK001
Eugene Kupjack and his sons Hank and Jay created museum quality miniature rooms in their studio outside of Chicago for many years. Hank and Jay learned the at their father’s side as he assisted Mrs. Narcissa Niblack Thorne with the creation her many miniature rooms now housed at The Art Institute of Chicago. Almost every piece of molding, furniture, rugs, and accessory items that are contained in their rooms are designed and created by hand. In addition to designing and building rooms they would sometimes work to restore the rooms built many years ago by their father and Mrs. Thorne.
Their work can be seen in various museums as far away as Turkey where they were exhibited in 2009. In the United States their work can be seen in the permanent collections of The Kentucky Museum Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Philadelphia Art Museum...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Wood Fairy, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2011
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Wood Fairy (2011)
The forest fairy is the image of a beautiful girl, woven into all mythologies and cultures. Women's beauty and natu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Diogenes, terracotta sculpture, 1939, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
**Diogenes.**
**Terracotta sculpture, 1939, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981): Tuscan Sculptor.**
**Material:** Hand-modeled terracotta by the artist.
**Unique piece.**
**Dimensions...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Signed Wrede - Angel with torch - Bas-Relief
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Wrede
Bas Relief - Angel with torch
Bronze
106,6 x 34,7 cm with the wood panel
Signed on lower right
Category
1910s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse Head of Selene - Jos de Wit, 21st Century Contemporary Wooden Sculpture
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Dutch artist Jos de Wit.
It is unique and made of mahogany wood. The pedestal is made of mahogany and maple wood. In the not of the fish there is a piece o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Steel Garden Wall - "Spring" - Modern Outdoor Ornament - 75 x 195 cm
Located in Winterswijk, NL
With its rustic aesthetic, this privacy screen will not only protect your privacy, but also add a special charm to your outdoor area.
The rusty surface gives each element an individu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Antique Bronze Miniature Barnyard with a Bull, Sheep & Goat circa 1860, France
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Miniature Barnyard Scene (Cow, Sheep & Goat)
Christophe Fratin (France, 1801-1864)
Sand cast bronze
5 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches
Highly refined and sensitively modeled miniature bronze representing a small herd of cattle, sheep and cattle on the terrace. Despite its small size, this bronze offers a complete view of a small herd of livestock: a bull is lying in a landscape near a sheep and a goat climbing a tree above a rocky mound. Here we find the skillful hand of the animalier sculptor Christophe Fratin (French, 1801-1864), immensely famous in the 19th century for his thoughtfully crafted animal...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Echoes - figurative, contemporary, corten steel outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This monumental steel figurative sculpture of a moose is designed for the outdoors.
The majestic moose, an iconic national symbol, is the subject of this imposing realistic silhouet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
''Stretch'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Duck, Bird
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse - Wooden Sculpture by Ferdinando Codognotto - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is an original decorative object realized in the 2010s by Ferdinando Codognotto.
Original wood sculpture realized in swiss pine expertly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Down Time
By Bill Nebeker
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed/signed by the Artist on the bottom portion of the bronze piece with an edition number.
17/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Le Dresseur De Lion
By Max Le Verrier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare Art Deco patinated metal sculpture modelled as an athletic male walking alongside a stylized lion utlizing cubist elements.
The work is set on a black polished stone base whic...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Pair Bas-reliefs Spring Autumn Flemish Sculptor 17th Century Wood
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Antichità Castelbarco SRLS is proud to present:
Flemish sculptor of the 17th century
Pair of bas-relief panels depicting the Allegory of Spring and the Allegory of Autumn
Oak wood
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Shade Tree" (2024) By Tim Cherry, Bronze Sculpture
By Tim Cherry
Located in Denver, CO
"Shade Tree" By Tim Cherry is an original, handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a squirrel resting on a tree branch, with its tail and one of its legs dangling off the side.
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Big Scale Hand Carved Table Top Wood Lion Sculpture
Located in Firenze, IT
This 19th century big scale Italian animalier sculpure features a lion striding forward on a root-wood base, snarling with open mouth and expressive eyes enlivening its rippling mane with an extremely realistic sense of motion. The wooden statue, wonderful as a table top, is entirely hand carved in the round in a single block of solid olive wood, sign of high quality and sculptural artisanal mastery. An original whimsical and impressive centerpiece clearly sculpted by a true artist who carved the block of wood creating this figure of the proudest feline boasting a detailed study of the lion's anatomy.The features on the face, mane, muscles, tail and the paws are still distinctive and full of character as well as the beautifully carved stand. This sculpture boasts smooth surface and a warm patina developed over centuries and exudes wonderful quality and timelessness of the ancient world. The rich original patina brings further intrigue to its intricately carved details.
This hand carved wooden lion statue is a great looking antique centrepiece...
Category
19th Century Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Triumph 2/18
By Gail Folwell
Located in Napa, CA
Gail Folwell is a contemporary sculptor who holds a BFA from the University of Denver and has had an accomplished career in graphic design as well as extensive university and college...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Guilt of Innocence (Postage Due Mr. Lee), wood and steel sculpture, Troy Williams
Located in Santa Fe, NM
“Guilt of Innocence” (Postage Due Mr. Lee)
Most of us don’t realize the true cost of the lifestyle we enjoy. There is a price paid by humanity that lives in our shadow. Unfair trade practices have stripped multitudes from their means of subsistence, thus forcing them to bow down to the system that has taken from them a meaningful life. The sculpture “Guilt of Innocence” depicts the American consumer’s role in this tragedy.
Who is Mr. Lee?
Lee Kyung was a South Korean farmer whose family farm is now a parking lot due to the WTO and unfair trade practices. Farmers in South Korea, who once made a good middle class living on their land, are now impoverished by the dumping...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
The Wind
By Gil Bruvel
Located in PARIS, FR
This captivating sculpture depicts a face emerging from the material, appearing to come to life with surprising fluidity. Crafted from stainless steel, it is shaped into fine, undula...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
$28,000
Finis Saltationis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Finis Saltationis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
This sculpture need to be ordered. We will cast a b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Woman's face, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
Woman's face, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Tuscan Sculptor.
Terracotta modeled by hand by the artist. Unique piece.
Dimensions: Height 27 cm.
The ch...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Art Deco Venetian Mask Handcarved Wood Panel Wall Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This superb French Art Deco wooden panel or wall-mounted sculpture features a spectacular Venetian mask and was hand-crafted in the 1930s. The sculpted panel boasts finely detailed c...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Donkeys’ skin by Cécile Raynal - Animal art, large sculpture, fairytale nature
Located in Paris, FR
This sculpture represents two donkeys of which only the skin remains, although they seem alive. As it is sometimes the case for Cécile Raynal’s sculpture, this work stages the emptin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
20th Century Terracotta French Sculpture Centrepiece Signed Flamand, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French centerpiece from the first half of the 20th century. Finely chiseled terracotta object with masks (faces with different expressions, see photo) and figures of lateral cherubs ...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Irakli Tsuladze - Horse
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze & Marble
Irakli Tsuladze is a Georgian sculptor born in 1973 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His sculptures present a peculiar unity of substance and emotions, whe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
African zoomorphic puppet head sculpture from the Bozo Tribe in Mali.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century zoomorphic African puppet head sculpture from the Bozo tribe in Mali.
This puppet head would have been used by the Bozo ethnic group during the Sogobo ceremony.
This ancestral tradition continues in the region of Segou in Mali along the Niger river. It is an opportunity to regroup the different villages and give rise to musical and theatrical performances whose highlight is the puppet show...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Boa (9/21)" (2014) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Still Life Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Boa" (2014) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that perfectly captures the detail of a boa constrictor snake.
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Wave by Yann Guillon - Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Limited edition of 8 + 4 artist's proofs. Each cast is signed and numbered.
Sold with a wooden base.
Dimensions of the bronze sculpture: 10 H x 55 L x 15 D cm
Dimensions of the base...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Uncharted - detailed, inscriptions, hand-built, vessel, glass, ceramic sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Exquisite in form and detail, Heather Allen Hietala’s series of hand-built clay vessels symbolize life’s journey. This beautiful piece features a larger vessel; its bold form reminis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Ruth Bloch, Couple on a large bench
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Ruth Bloch, Bronze, Human Figure, Metallic, Earth Tones
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jacob Epstein, 1950, Madonna and Child, lead sculpture, signed, British
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jacob Epstein (British / American 1880 – 1959)
Madonna and Child, 1950
Sculpture (lead with bronze halos)
34cm.
In a bespoke carved oak devotional niche
Signed ‘Epstein’ (on the reve...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Bird on a branch
Located in PARIS, FR
Bird on a branch
by Ferdinand PAUTROT (1832-1874)
Bronze with a nuanced old gilded and brown patina
Signed on the base " F. Pautrot "
old cast
Underneath, label of the Resaler-Deco...
Category
1970s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ramoneur IV
Located in Madrid, ES
EDUARDO ARROYO
Spanish, 1937 - 2018
RAMONEUR IV
signed, dated and numbered "ARROYO / 1982 / 1/6" (on the side of the neck)
"MAGISA" foundry seal (on the side of the neck)
bronze and ...
Category
1980s Cubist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"HORSE TAMER" BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Bennett
(Born 1952)
Fredericksburg, Texas Artist
Image Size: 22 x 37 across x 10
Medium: Bronze
"Horse Tamer"
John Bennett (Born 1952)
John Bennett was designated Texas State Ar...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Carved Wood Relief Mask Wall Sculpture Panel, a pair
Located in Atlanta, GA
Superbly handcrafted pair of Mid-Century-Modern wooden wall art sculpture panels. The artworks feature dimensional female and male faces or m...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
By Leonard Wells Volk
Located in London, GB
Leonard Wells Volk was a famous American sculptor. He went to posterity after making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. I...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
American Elm - Tree Mushrooms Vine Copper Wire Wall Mounted Sculpture, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary wall-mounted sculpture combines copper electroplated american elm tree section (Ulmus americana), poison ivy vines (Toxicodendron radicans), lacquered bracket (Gano...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Conceptual House Sculpture Dark Wood Chair Brown Grain Thought
Located in Buffalo, NY
Robert Booth is a Western New York visionary conceptual sculpture artist known for his haunting and thought-provoking creations. His work takes viewers on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Horse
Located in Bozeman, MT
For years I have concentrated on large outdoor sculpture in a wide variety of locations: sculpture parks and gardens, city streets, on the bank...
Category
2010s Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Cupid and Psyche
Located in PARIS, FR
Cupid and Psyche
by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)
Bronze group with nuanced brown patina
signed on the base "Carrier-Belleuse"
old edition cast
France
circa 1870
hei...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
3 Carved Wood Plaques Outsider Modern Mid 20th Century Latin Gay LGBT Beefcake
Located in New York, NY
3 Carved Wood Plaques Outsider Modern Mid 20th Century Latin Gay Male LGBT Beefcake
Each plaque is 16 x 10 x 1 1/4 inches. Two are vertical and one is horizo...
Category
20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mother and Child -miniature figurative bronze by New York artist Noa Bornstein
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This lovely small bronze in a warm honey brown patina is a depiction of a mother enveloping her child, inspired by a scene sculptor Noa Bornstein witnessed at a train station.
The optional wooden base (as shown on the second image) is included. Listed dimensions include the wooden base. This humanistic, figurative sculpture is ideal for a desk or table-top, coffee table, or shelf.
Edition 4 of 4.
Noa Bornstein describes herself as “a draw-er”. Many of her sculptures begin as a quick drawing or impression - from memory, from dreams, or from life itself. “Watching a man walking down the street, I take out my little pad and am compelled to capture something of his gait, the rhythm, shape, whatever attracts my attention,” says Bornstein.
Figurative sculptor and painter Noa Bornstein was born in San Rafael, California, and grew up mostly in Los Angeles. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1986. Bornstein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of California at Santa Cruz. Her sculptures have been shown at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Florida, the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, and Grounds for Sculpture, Toad Hall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ever After 16/35
By Sandy Graves
Located in Napa, CA
Born in Colorado and raised in Nebraska, Sandy Graves first forayed into the art world by presenting work as a child and 4-H member at local county fairs. As she continued her educat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Judgment of Wotan; Die Walküre II
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Christopher Slatoff’s Judgment of Wotan; Die Walkure II depicts the music drama, Walkure, Die (The Valkyrie)....
Category
2010s Realist Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$7,600 Sale Price
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Mid Century Modern Tree Sculpture by Curtis Jere
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Standout vintage object of art tree sculpture handcrafted in brass attached to an organic quartz rock and signed Curtis Jere on the bottom.
Category
20th Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Brass
Statuette, Metal Sculpture, Psychological and Naturalistic
Located in Detroit, MI
This small metal statuette exemplifies the Italian artist Umberto Del Negro's interest in playing with the themes of civilization and nature. From multiple angles this piece could ap...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Listening for Spirit
By Denny Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Listening for Spirit by Denny Haskew
Female nude
Bronze (silver nitrate patina) on sandstone 8x6x10" ed/30 (height is variable based on stone)
si...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone, Bronze
Girl Sitting on Panel-contemporary bronze sculpture, nude female on rustic panel
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Sitting Girl on Panel" is a bronze sculpture of a nude sitting female on a rustic panel. Edition 30, signed, numbered and dated on the back. The rustic panel can be hung on a wall ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Traveling Landscape (Roundtop Steamer)
Located in New York, NY
This sculptural installation incorporates running water and and interior light which activates the scene of a streambed along a grassy knoll. Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes with running streams and rivers inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Resin, Watercolor
Modèle de maquette de dyslexie disloquée by Cécile Raynal - stoneware sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Modèle de maquette de dyslexie disloquée is a unique smoke-fired stoneware sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 170 × 163 × 130 cm (66.9 × 64.1 × 51....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Wood
"BEACH CIGS" Assemblage cigarette sculpture
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "BEACH CIGS" is an original painted sculpture by Jim Houser made of assembled objects. This piece measures approximately 7”h x 12”w x 3.5”d. It includes the pictured cigarette...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Acrylic
Bronze Sculpture American Modernist Art Stanley Bleifeld Girl with Bass or Cello
Located in Surfside, FL
Retaining a fine patina and in overall good condition.
Signed with initials SB.
I believe the edition size was 7 But I cannot find a mark.
Stanley Bleifeld (1924 – 2011) was an American sculptor.
Stanley Bleifeld was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Bleifeld earned bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of science in education and in 1949 a master of fine arts degree in painting at Tyler School of Art of Temple University. After a trip to Rome in 1959 or 1960 he gave up painting for sculpture. He began his fine-art career as a painter. However, a visit to Italy and exposure to the bronzes of Donatello, Michelangelo, and Ghiberti changed his direction He worked with the Art Foundry of Massimo del Chiaro and alongside artists such as Lucchesi, Harry Marinsky, Fernando Botero, Igor Mitoraj and Ivan Theimer. Many of his early pieces were religious subjects, and reflected both painting and sculptural techniques in bas reliefs* that had "liquid landscapes in undulating reliefs and free-flowing portraits reminiscent of classical fragments" (166-167). He later turned from these abstract pieces to more realistic figures in bronze.
Bleifeld was a National Academician in Sculpture, and a member of the National Academy of Design, and helped set policy for that organization. He was also President of the National Sculpture Society. Past presidents of the society have included John Quincy Adams Ward, James Earle Fraser, Chester Beach, Wheeler Williams, Leo Friedlander, Neil Estern, and Cecil de Blaquiere Howard. The first woman to gain admission into the NSS was Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, in 1893. She was followed a few years later by Enid Yandell and Bessie Potter Vonnoh in 1898; Janet Scudder in 1904; Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1905 and Evelyn Longman and Abastenia St. Leger Eberle in 1906. In 1946, Richmond Barthé was likely the first African-American to be admitted.
In 1994, the NSS held their first exhibition outside the United States at the Palazzo Mediceo Di Seravezza in Italy. Titled “100 Years of the National Sculpture Society of the United States of America in Italy” it ran from the 16th of July through the 4th of September and was curated by Nicky and Stanley Bleifeld along with Costantino Paolicchi, Lodovico Gierut and Paolo Giorgi. Among the 60 notable American sculptors whose work was selected for the exhibition were Stanley Bleifeld, Andrew DeVries, Neil Estern, Leonda Finke, Bruno Lucchesi, Barbara Lekberg...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joie De Vivre, bronze figurative dance sculpture
Located in Greenwich, CT
This joyous in the round bronze can turn on its base, making for dramatic presentation and enjoyment that is interactive. It is based on the idea of the Three Graces which is often an allegorical subject in sculpture. Wein has done a contemporary feeling interpretation of this classic theme. Piece itself measure 12 1/2 inches and sits on a 3 1/4 inch base and is attached to its base at two points and it is a revolving or rather turning base. The two points on which the toes touch and are secured are striking for how little of the bronze touches the base. It is Fourth in an edition of 13. Albert Wein...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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The Japanese fiber artist’s ‘Vanishing and Emerging Wall’ may seem innocuous — but it plays with conceptions of time.